EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS

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1 Ukraine EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS NSK Olimpiyskyi - Kyiv Monday 5 September CET (21.45 local time) Group I - Matchday 1 Iceland Last updated 05/09/ :02CET EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Legend 10 1

2 Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2000 Date Stage reached Match Result Venue Goalscorers 08/09/1999 PR (GS) Iceland - Ukraine 0-1 Reykjavik Rebrov 43 31/03/1999 PR (GS) Ukraine - Iceland 1-1 Kyiv Vaschuk 59; Larus Sigurdsson 66 Total Qualifying Home Away Final tournament Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Ukraine Iceland

3 Squad list Ukraine Current season Qual. No. Player DoB Age Club Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Andriy Pyatov 28/06/ Shakhtar FT - Denys Boyko 29/01/ Málaga - Mykyta Shevchenko 26/01/ Shakhtar Defenders - Olexandr Kucher 22/10/ Shakhtar - Artem Fedetskiy 26/04/ Darmstadt - Serhiy Kryvtsov 15/03/ Shakhtar - Bohdan Butko 13/01/ Shakhtar - Ivan Ordets 08/07/ Shakhtar - Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/ Shakhtar - Eduard Sobol 20/04/ Zorya Midfielders - Ruslan Rotan 29/10/ Dnipro - Yevhen Shakhov 30/11/ PAOK - Taras Stepanenko 08/08/ Shakhtar - Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/ Vitaliy Buyalskiy 06/01/ Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv - Olexandr Zinchenko 15/12/ PSV - Viktor Kovalenko 14/02/ Shakhtar - Maksym Malyshev 24/12/ Shakhtar - Ivan Petriak 13/03/ Zorya Forwards - Roman Zozulya 17/11/ Betis - Yevhen Seleznyov 20/07/ Shakhtar - Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/ Schalke - Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/ Coach Dynamo Kyiv - Andriy Shevchenko 29/09/

4 Iceland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Hannes Halldórsson 27/04/ Randers - Ögmundur Kristinsson 19/06/ Hammarby - Ingvar Jónsson 18/10/ Sandefjord Defenders - Ragnar Sigurdsson 19/06/ Fulham - Ari Skúlason 14/05/ Lokeren - Elmar Bjarnason 04/03/ AGF - Birkir Sævarsson 11/11/ Hammarby - Hólmar Eyjólfsson 06/08/ Rosenborg - Hordur Magnússon 11/02/ Bristol City - Arnor Ingvi Traustason 30/04/ Rapid Wien - Haukur Heidar Hauksson 01/09/ AIK - Sverrir Ingason 05/08/ Lokeren Midfielders - Emil Hallfredsson 29/06/ Udinese - Birkir Bjarnason 27/05/ Basel - Kári Árnason 13/10/ Malmö - Aron Gunnarsson 22/04/ Cardiff - Gylfi Sigurdsson 08/09/ Swansea - Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson 18/06/ Grasshoppers Forwards - Vidar Orn Kjartansson 11/03/ M. Tel-Aviv - Johann Gudmundsson 27/10/ Burnley - Alfred Finnbogason 01/02/ Augsburg - Jón Dadi Bödvarsson 25/05/ Kaiserslautern Coach - Heimir Hallgrímsson 10/06/

5 Head coach Andriy Shevchenko Date of birth: 29 September 1976 Nationality: Ukrainian Playing career: FC Dynamo Kyiv (twice), AC Milan (twice), Chelsea FC Coaching career: Ukraine (assistant), Ukraine Shevchenko enjoyed phenomenal early success with Dynamo Kyiv, the club he joined as a schoolboy, winning five successive Ukrainian titles and contributing 60 top-flight goals, including a league-best tally of 18 in 1998/99; that same season he also topped the UEFA Champions League charts with ten goals as Dynamo reached the semi-finals. Joined Milan in July 1999 and hit the ground running, finishing top of the Serie A goal charts in his debut season (the first foreigner to achieve the feat) with 24 goals, a tally he would match the following campaign and again in 2003/04, when he led the listings once more as Milan won the Scudetto; won the Ballon d'or in December 2004 to go with his six Ukrainian footballer of the year titles. Won the UEFA Champions League with the Rossoneri in 2003, scoring the decisive spot kick in the final against Juventus to crown an injury-curtailed campaign; however, missed crucially from the spot in the 2005 showpiece against Liverpool FC. Left Milan in 2006 with 127 Serie A and 38 European goals to his credit, but a move to Chelsea did not work out and he returned to Milan for an equally unsuccessful loan spell in 2008/09 before making the permanent move back to Dynamo a year later. Ukraine's record scorer by a distance, he captained the team to the quarter-finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup and became the first player to reach the 100-cap milestone for Ukraine, in October Scored twice in a famous win against Sweden at UEFA EURO 2012, his international swansong; after a short-lived foray into politics, appointed assistant to Ukraine coach Mykhaylo Fomenko, taking over as head coach after UEFA EURO Heimir Hallgrímsson Date of birth: 10 June 1967 Nationality: Icelandic Playing career: ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Íþróttafélagið Höttur, KF Smástund Coaching career: Íþróttafélagið Höttur (women), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (women, twice), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Iceland (assistant), Iceland (joint coach), Iceland Spent the majority of his playing career with ÍBV, who he represented between 1986 and 1992 and again from 1994 to 1996; he spent 1993 playing for Höttur, also managing their women's team. Hallgrímsson who combined his playing career with his part-time duties as a dentist moved to Smástund in 1996 and continued to represent the club following their merger the following year with Framherjar, from his home town of Vestmannaeyjar. Started coaching ÍBV's women's side in 1999 and was appointed assistant coach of the men's team three years later. Returned to the women's selection in 2003, staying for two years; took over as head coach of ÍBV's men's squad in Stayed in that role until 2011; that October, following Lars Lagerbäck's appointment as Iceland coach, Hallgrímsson was named as his assistant. Promoted to the joint coaching role following the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, when Iceland lost in the play-offs to Croatia. UEFA EURO 2016 was to be a competition to remember for Iceland, however, as they qualified for a first major finals from a section including the Czech Republic, Turkey and the Netherlands. Even better was to follow in France, Iceland remaining unbeaten to reach the knockout stages and then famously getting the better of England in the last 16 before a 5-2 defeat by the hosts in the last 16. Hallgrímsson took sole charge after the tournament. 5

6 Match officials Referee Assistant referees Fourth official UEFA Delegate UEFA Referee observer Clément Turpin (FRA) Cyril Gringore (FRA), Nicolas Danos (FRA) Ruddy Buquet (FRA) Emil Ubias (CZE) László Vagner (HUN) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Clément Turpin 16/05/ FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage reached Home Away Result Venue 06/10/2011 U21 QR Iceland England 0-3 Reykjavik 07/11/2013 UEL GS FC Thun FC Dynamo Kyiv 0-2 Thun 6

7 Competition facts The Week of Football concept enables fans around the world to enjoy the very best action from the European Qualifiers which will determine UEFA's representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup comprises nine groups of six teams, with matches played on a home-andaway basis. Qualifying takes place under the 'Week of Football' concept, introduced ahead of the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, in which games are spread out from Thursday to Tuesday, shining the spotlight on more teams on the road to the finals in Russia. Moreover, thanks to the Week of Football, at least 43% of matches will be played on weekends, giving fans a better chance to follow the action on television, in the stadiums and on UEFA.com. Kick-off times will be set mainly at 18:00CET and 20:45CET on Saturdays and Sundays and at 20:45CET for Thursdays, Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays. In double-header matchweeks, sides will play on Thursday/Sunday, Friday/Monday or Saturday/Tuesday. Each day of the Week of Football will feature eight to ten games. The nine group winners will qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up will contest play-offs to decide the last four qualifiers for the finals. The 13 qualifiers then join hosts Russia in the finals to make it 14 UEFA member associations represented. How qualification works The other confederations have the following qualifying berths: Africa: 5 Asia: 4.5 North and Central America and Caribbean: 3.5 Oceania: 0.5 South America: 4.5 7

8 Match-by-match lineups Ukraine FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Group I Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Croatia Finland Iceland Turkey Ukraine Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Ukraine-Iceland Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Turkey-Ukraine Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Ukraine-Kosovo Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Ukraine-Finland Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Croatia-Ukraine Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Finland-Ukraine Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Ukraine-Turkey Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Iceland-Ukraine Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Kosovo-Ukraine Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Ukraine-Croatia Iceland FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Ukraine-Iceland Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Iceland-Finland Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Iceland-Turkey Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Croatia-Iceland Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Kosovo-Iceland Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) 8

9 Iceland-Croatia Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Finland-Iceland Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Iceland-Ukraine Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Turkey-Iceland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Iceland-Kosovo 9

10 Legend Competitions Club competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League UCUP: UEFA Cup UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup SCUP: UEFA Super Cup UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Other abbreviations National team competitions EURO: UEFA European Football Championship WC: FIFA World Cup CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties No.: Number og: Own goal ag: Match decided on away goals P: Penalty agg: Aggregate Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition Pts: Points D: Drawn R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth Res.: Result ET: Extra Time sg: Match decided by silver goal GA: Goals against t: Match decided by toss of a coin GF: Goals for W: Won gg: Match decided by golden goal Y: Booked L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) Nat.: Nationality N/A: Not applicable Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended Overall: Total appearances in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament only Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 10